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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 08:44:53 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:17:15 +0000, Sacha
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All they had to do was cancel lunch hours in France. The Russians would
never have got through. ;-)
:-)
Why were they preparing for a Russian invasion long after the cold war
was over?

This was 1974.

but there wasn't a channel tunnel in 1974, or was there a secret one
we didn't know about?

No, but it was on the cards, so they were planning/brainstorming for what
would happen when it was in place. Unusual government foresight, normally
you'd expect the invasion to happen via the chunnel and then the civil
service to be completely surprised that such a thing could happen.

No that would be the military.
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hugh
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